Lei Zhang
Principal Investigator
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Zhang is a cognitive computational neuroscientist and Principal Investigator at the Centre for Human Brain Health with a decade of experience bridging computational models and human brain research. As Associate Professor and Director of Post-Graduate Research at the University of Birmingham, she leads interdisciplinary teams investigating how social influence and valuation shape decision-making. Her career spans top European labs and clinical settings, including postdoctoral work in Vienna and Hamburg and a summa cum laude PhD from the University of Hamburg. Lei combines rigorous experimental neuroscience with computational methods, mentoring the next generation of researchers while steering graduate programs. She maintains active ties to international training initiatives like Neuromatch Academy, reflecting a commitment to open, collaborative education. Colleagues note her knack for turning complex theoretical questions about cognition into tractable computational experiments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology at Beijing Normal UniversityDr. rer. biol. hum. (Ph.D.), Neuroscience, summa cum laude (with distinction), Dr. rer. biol. hum. (Ph.D.), Neuroscience, summa cum laude (with distinction) at University of HamburgMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience at Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Github Skills (2)
mass5
smtp2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lei-zhang/SIT
Apr 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:51 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
lei-zhang/COSN_webinar
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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